[1] “Short sentences are not an end by
themselves. As legal writers, your goals are short and clear sentences.”
As Napoleon Bonaparte emphasized to his runners who brought messages to
his battlefield commanders, “Make it clear! Make it clear! Make it
clear!”

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I took these pictures when I was a journalism teacher and yearbook adviser in Rizal High School in Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines from 1984 to 1995. Rizal High School was once credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest high school. Hello to all Rizalians!

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“Marriage is a covenant between a man and a woman who agree to live together as husband and wife for as long as they both live. We have chosen each other carefully and have received premarital counseling on the nature, purposes and responsibilities of marriage. We understand that a covenant marriage is for life.”